What's new in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 24.3.0 2024-03-08
Mar 8, 2024
- Properly detect macOS 13
- Support programmatically disabling buttons
- Improved <getFreeDiskSpace> to gracefully handle scenarios with erroneous filesystems on macOS
- Improve language detection on macOS
- Updated documentation
- Updated internal dependencies
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 23.10.1 2023-10-03 (Oct 3, 2023)
- Fixed initialization regression on Windows x86 installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 23.7.0 2023-08-03 (Aug 3, 2023)
- Allow using custom scripts when signing Windows installers
- Improved DLL handling on Windows
- Fixed RPM generation when packing directories with spaces
- Fixed Windows installers failing to launch from some malformed working directories
- Fixed osx-x86_64 type not properly working on <platformTest> rule
- Fixed <linkParameter> incorrectly wrapping text in some scenarios
- Fixed choice dialogs style on macOS when running in osx mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 23.4.0 2023-04-25 (Apr 26, 2023)
- Added new starts_with and ends_with tests to <compareText> rule
- Improved <choiceParameter> alignment on Windows
- Always include osx-arm64 uninstaller runtime when it is included in the installer
- Fixed splash screen transparency on Windows when running in Qt mode
- Fixed floating licenses not properly working on some M1 machines
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 23.1.0 2023-01-13 (Jan 14, 2023)
- Rebrand to Backstaff
- Updated internal dependencies
- Updated documentation
- Fixed macOS signatures not being properly created when using binary launchers and supporting osx-arm64
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 22.10.0 2022-10-26 (Oct 27, 2022)
- Support using HTML values in <infoParameter> for all graphical modes
- Added new <enableGlobMatching> setting to <deleteFile> action to allow deleting special filenames
- Improved generation of unique identifiers
- Improved DLL loading on Qt installers
- Improved windows 32-bit runtimes to prevent false positives in some antivirus vendors
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 22.8.0 2022-08-09 (Aug 9, 2022)
- Added Swiss and Austrian languages
- Updated internal dependencies
- Fixed some HTML licenses making installers crash on Windows x64 when running in win32 mode
- Fixed malformed osx-arm64 signatures when using built-in signing
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 22.6.0 2022-07-14 (Jul 16, 2022)
- Fixed binary launcher not properly generated when building osx-arm64 installers
- Fixed <httpGet> action adding erroneous leading characters in the downloaded response when using the osx-arm64 runtime
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 22.3.0 2022-05-13 (May 14, 2022)
- Improved signing errors reporting
- Updated internal dependencies
- Support built-in macOS signing using G2 certificates
- Fixed typo in Ukrainian translation
- Fixed qt installers crashing on Linux systems reporting incorrect screen metrics
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 21.6.0 2021-06-25 (Jun 28, 2021)
- Enabled Qt Professional and Professional flavors to build linux-arm32 and linux-arm64
- Updated documentation and updated its look and feel
- Always include osx-x86_64 runtime when generating uninstallers on macOS M1 machines
- Support using three lines of text in installer pages titles without any cropping
- Improved installers compatibility when running on macOS M1
- Improved uninstaller launching process on Windows
- Enforce full path to reg command on Windows
- Fixed environment modification actions not properly preserving Unicode characters on Unix
- Fixed installers crashing on some macOS 10.14.6 environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 21.3.0 2021-04-06 (Apr 6, 2021)
- Fixed macOS binary launcher executable permissions not enforced when using <createOsxBundleZip>
- Support using osx-x86_64 and osx-arm64 checks in <platformTest> rule
- Fixed Qt mode on arm macOS Big Sur incorrectly displayed when using dark mode
- Fixed malformed admin launcher on macOS arm when signed using the built-in mechanism
- Enforce PIE binary flags on macOS osx-x86_64
- Fixed builder osx-arm64 application crashing on macOS when clicking on top bar menu items
- Fixed code signing of big exe files on Windows x64
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.12.0 2020-12-28 (Dec 29, 2020)
- Added macOS ARM support
- Added initial support for Linux ARM
- Improved Linux distribution detection
- Improved buttons look and feel on macOS Catalina and newer
- Improved dependencies loading on Windows 7
- Fixed redraw glitch on Windows when using some complex parameter gro
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.9.0 2020-10-15 (Oct 16, 2020)
- Add support for properly detecting macOS Big Sur as running platform
- Improve <portTest> rule to never fail and log errors instead
- Added support for Zsh shell
- New <propertiesFileTest> rule
- Improved random number generator on Windows platforms
- Fixed macOS installers not properly detecting the proper runtime when running on Apple Silicon ARM Macs
- Fixed installer buttons look and feel on macOS Big Sur
- Fixed HTTPS connections not properly validating when using a proxy
- Prevent hidden parameters from invoking their rules
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.7.0 2020-08-21 (Aug 22, 2020)
- Improved internal dependencies loading on Windows
- Log uninstaller exit code
- Updated internal dependencies on Windows x86
- Fixed <userTest> account type checks not properly working on Windows x64
- Fixed <runProgram> failing to run inside internationalized directory wen using <wrapInScript> on Windows
- Fixed Qt installers looking for plugins by default at install time
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.6.0 2020-07-01 (Jul 2, 2020)
- Fixed <xmlFileGet> and <xmlFileSet> failing on some environments
- Fixed Windows x64 installers failing to display HTML licenses on win32 mode
- Fixed failure to load some projects when overriding common attributes in custom actions
- Fixed <iniFileTest> rule not properly serialized into project files
- Prevent macOS Catalina from not allowing running overridden signed binaries because of signature caching
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.4.0 2020-05-05 (May 5, 2020)
- Fixed build failure when providing malformed booleans for the <enableDebugger> setting
- Fixed high memory usage at build time when packing files by dereferencing links on Windows
- Updated internal dependencies
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.3.0 2020-04-02 (Apr 2, 2020)
- Prevent installers from using cmd.exe from the installer directory when executing batch scripts on Windows
- Fixed AutoUpdate not honoring proxy settings configured in the INI file when running in interactive mode
- Fixed wrapping glitch in complex parameter groups after revisiting the welcome page on macOS
- Enforce output directory normalization when provided through --setvars
- Fixed crash searching nodes in GUI builder tree in some scenarios
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.2.0 2019-02-19 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Rebranded to VMware InstallBuilder
- Improved timestamping error detection when signing macOS installers on non-macOS platforms
- Prevent uninstaller from crashing when failing to check for empty directories because of lack of permissions
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 20.1.0 2019-01-30 (Jan 31, 2020)
- Fixed Linux installer crashing when exiting on some environments
- Improved internal dependency libraries loading on Windows
- Support using built-in variable ${build_project_directory} in <include> directive
- Improved crash file generation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.12.0 2019-12-30 (Dec 30, 2019)
- Updated internal dependencies on Linux/Linux x64 runtimes
- Added Ukrainian language
- Fixed <httpPost> action hanging in some environments when using SSL and contacting a server with an invalid certificate
- Fixed qt mode crashing on some macOS environments when displaying the splash screen
- Fixed builder crash when trying to paste previously deleted tree nodes
- Fixed build failure when enabling the debugger and using signed Windows uninstallers
- Fixed build failure when using custom CA bundles and using signed Windows uninstallers
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.11.0 2019-12-02 (Dec 3, 2019)
- Updated HTTP/HTTPS internal dependencies
- Improved AutoUpdate handling of malformed update.xml files
- Support --setvars command-line option when building the AutoUpdate
- Support customizing license file location when building the AutoUpdate
- Improved images rendering on macOS Builder
- Improved Windows installers exit handling
- Added .NET 4.8 autodetection
- Updated documentation
- Fixed <enableSsl> not honored on Windows at uninstallation time when using signed uninstallers
- Fixed startmenu shortcuts not being created on windows-x64 installers
- Fixed HTTP actions not honoring customized Accept header
- Fixed false signing failure detection when building on macOS Catalina
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.10.0 2019-10-15 (Oct 17, 2019)
- Fixed Arabic and Persian languages not properly displayed on macOS 10.15 when running in Qt mode
- Fixed crash on macOS versions older than 10.9 when using the osx-x86_64 runtime and running in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.9.0 2019-10-02 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Fixed <runProgram> action failing on macOS 10.15 when running in the <postUninstallationActionList>
- Fixed Asian languages not being properly displayed on macOS 10.15 when running in Qt mode
- Preserve built-in registry keys wowMode when updating 32bit Windows installations with Windows 64bit
- Support customizing built-in command-line flags descriptions
- Fixed signing of big DMGs on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.8.0 2019-09-01 (Sep 2, 2019)
- Improved <findFile> performance
- Added support for HTML licenses in xwindow mode
- Fixed Gtk and Qt proxy pages duplicating its description text
- Fixed <queryWMI> returning only a single result in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed deletion of registry keys when not providing a specific <name> and setting <wowMode> to 32 in windows-x64 installers
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.7.1 2019-07-21 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Improved <kill> action detection by <path>
- Always generate HFS+ dmgs on newest macOS versions to make them compatible with 10.12 and older
- Fixed search Builder GUI search popup crashing on some environments
- Fixed <defaultUnixFilePermissions> not being properly honored
- Fixed <queryWMI> action not properly working in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed <wowMode> not being properly honored in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed <singleInstanceCheck> always triggering in windows-x64 installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.7.0 2019-07-10 (Jul 11, 2019)
- This release addresses an important security issue in Windows related to how installers are signed on this platform. More details to follow.
- Fixed macOS signature not being properly validated on versions older than 10.11.6
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.6.0 2019-06-28 (Jun 28, 2019)
- Support creating macOS signatures with hardened runtime enabled to allow notarization
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed <osxPlatforms> default value to osx-x86_64
- New installer_http_proxy variable to programmatically access the provided proxy information
- Updated documentation
- Fixed some Windows configuration attributes not being properly applied to Windows-x64 Java launchers
- Fixed proxy page not honoring the provided configuration when running in text mode
- Fixed Linux builder failing on some environments with misconfigured time zone
- Fixed missing localized string
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.5.0 2019-05-13 (May 13, 2019)
- Added new windows-x64 build platform
- Added 64bit version of osxsigner tool
- Fixed malformed logic in <iniFileTest> rule
- Fixed welcome page displaying truncated trailing letters on some macOS environments
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.4.1 2019-04-17 (Apr 17, 2019)
- Fixed incorrect final page layout on macOS when enabling the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Improved <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx> error reporting
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.4.0 2019-04-09 (Apr 10, 2019)
- Improved <getPermissions> error reporting when operating over non-existent files
- Fixed Windows AutoUpdate generation failing because of malformed default icon
- Allow <componentTest> rule to take into account parent components in its checks
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.3.0 2019-03-26 (Mar 26, 2019)
- New <validatedActionGroup> action
- Added <useLauncherDirectoryAsWorkingDirectory> to Java launchers to allow preserving the current working directory on execution
- Added Windows Server 2019 support
- Improved documentation
- Updated zlib dependency on Linux and Windows
- Fixed macOS installers always exiting with zero code when enabling <requireInstallationByRootUser>
- Fixed some Builder popups not kept on top when running on macOS
- Fixed installers aborting at startup on some solaris and linux-ia64 environments
- Fixed macOS installers incorrectly wrapping text on some languages
- Fixed custom <uninstallerDirectory> not being removed on macOS
- Fixed outdated welcome screen
- Fixed <findFile> returning malformed results when invoked in the installer_directory
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.2.0 2019-02-04 (Feb 4, 2019)
- Fix security fixes with installers when using the <enableEncryption> functionality
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 19.1.0 2019-02-01 (Feb 1, 2019)
- Added support for FreeBSD 10 and higher
- New <iniFileTest> rule
- Improved GUI responsiveness during <autoDetectJava> action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.12.0 2018-12-31 (Jan 1, 2019)
- Reduced memory usage building and running big project installers
- Fixed license page text not properly wrapping in some macOS scenarios when running in Qt mode
- Updated documentation to include new Java 11 bundles
- Fixed "InstallLocation" Windows registry value being improperly quoted
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.11.0 2018-11-30 (Dec 1, 2018)
- Fixed popup button localization not properly working on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed <choiceParameterGroup> failing in some text mode scenarios when wrapped in a <booleanParameterGroup> with <validationType> set to always
- T27733 Improve linux details detection
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.10.0 2018-11-01 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Added support for MacOS 10.14
- Improved detection of Windows system and user folders
- Fixed fail to validate floating license error
- Fixed not being able to disable HTTP proxy from installer GUI in certain cases
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.8.0 2018-10-01 (Oct 1, 2018)
- New <getDiskUsage> action
- Improved boolean parameter display in win32, osx and xwindow GUI modes
- Improved performance of multiple actions using pattern for matching files
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.8.0 2018-07-29 (Aug 29, 2018)
- Allowed the debugger to run in all unattended modes
- Improved system DPI granularity handling on Windows
- Improved <labelParameter> wrapping on some macOS environments
- Properly quoted UninstallString and Location registry entries on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.7.0 2018-07-25 (Jul 26, 2018)
- Improved <singleInstanceCheck> on Unix platforms
- Fixed incorrect label wrapping in some macOS environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.6.0 2018-06-29 (Jun 29, 2018)
- Add <addFilesToUninstaller> option to <unzip>, <unpackFile> and <unpackDirectory> actions unpacking files to have them automatically removed by uninstaller
- Improved generation of DMGs over 4GB
- Allow signing of DMGs over 4GB
- Make <propertiesFileSet> add a trailing newline when appending new values
- Use display language rather than region for auto-detecting language on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.5.2 2018-05-28 (May 28, 2018)
- Fixed AutoUpdate hanging in some macOS environments when enabling the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed AutoUpdate not honoring the <enableSslSupport> setting on osx-x86_64 runtime
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.5.1 2018-05-24 (May 25, 2018)
- Fixed installers using the osx-x86_64 runtime hanging in some macOS scenarios when enabling <requireInstallationByRootUser> and running in qt mode
- Improved .NET autodetection to support version 4.7
- Update documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.5.0 2018-05-10 (May 11, 2018)
- Added support for Java 10 version detection
- Fixed osxsigner external tool not signing the osx-x86_64 runtime when using native mode
- Fixed Abort/Retry/Ignore dialog buttons in qt mode when using the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed error showing the uninstallation finished popup in osx mode when disabling uninstallation confirmation in the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed "setuid is not allowed" error on macOS when using unattended mode with minimal UI
- Fixed crash occurring in some scenarios when using qt mode with the osx-x86_64 runtime at initialization time
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.4.0 2018-04-18 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Added initial retina display support for osx mode when using the 64-bit runtime
- Fixed final page checkboxes alignment in osx and xwindow modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.3.0 2018-03-28 (Mar 28, 2018)
- Fixed DMG background image not being properly configured in some environments
- Fixed HTML license text encoding handling in win32 and osx installation modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 18.2.0 2018-02-28 (Feb 28, 2018)
- Allow <preShowHelpActionList> to modify which parameters/components will be displayed in the help menu
- Fixed <kill> action not working with 64-bit binaries on Windows
- Improved horizontal parameter group layout in gtk mode
- Improved <linkParameter> look and feel in osx and win32 modes when displayed inside parameter groups
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.12.0 2017-12-21 (Dec 21, 2017)
- Support generating large DMG files on Linux
- Fixed crash opening some external files from the Builder on macOS
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.11.0 2017-12-01 (Dec 1, 2017)
- Improved Java autodetection to fully support Java 9
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.10.0 2017-10-30 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Fixed InstallBuilder not fully exiting at end of installation on some Linux environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.10.0 (Oct 27, 2017)
- Improved uninstallation speed when using GUI
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.9.0 (Oct 2, 2017)
- Allow modification of <passwordParameter>'s <askForConfirmation> in it's <preShowPageActionList>
- Fixed installer appearing minimized on OS X when running with splash screen disabled in Qt mode
- Fixed installers failing to start inside directories containing special characters
- Properly display license files with BOM character
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.8.0 (Sep 4, 2017)
- Improved <labelParemeter> alignment on win32/osx/xwindow modes
- Documentation updates
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Made parameter group validation in text mode behave as in GUI modes, not running <postShowPageActionList> unless validation succeeds
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.7.0 (Jul 27, 2017)
- Added Retina Display support for the Builder application
- Added support for macOS High Sierra (10.13)
- Reduced memory usage when signing big DMG files
- Improved option files BOM support
- Improved <registerWithPackageDatabase> documentation
- Removed trailing spaces when creating Windows services without arguments
- Limited number of cores when decompressing lzma-ultra/lzham-ultra with high page sizes on Linux x86
- Fixed FTP downloads not fully finishing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.6.0 (Jun 6, 2017)
- Added support for for option files encoded with BOM
- Fixed <fileContentTest> default logic
- Fixed occasional installer creation errors when using builder on certain Windows environments
- Fixed Cyrillic characters not being properly displayed in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.4.0 (Apr 28, 2017)
- Added more translations for non-English languages
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.3.0 (Mar 8, 2017)
- Fixed builder GUI issues when modifying <httpPost> actions
- Minor fix on Italian translations
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.2.0 (Feb 27, 2017)
- Improved translations
- Improved Ubuntu OS detection
- Documentation updates
- Improved syncdebugtrace generation
- Fixed unzip action failing to uncompress files in certain scenarios
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly detecting versions when using large version IDs
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 17.1.0 (Jan 31, 2017)
- Allow sending data payloads in <httpPost> action
- Added support for Windows Server 2016
- Improved error handling when running on Linux systems with misconfigured or non-existent font support
- Disabled <runAsShell> property for <runProgram> action on Solaris due to incompatibilities
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.12.0 (Dec 31, 2016)
- Minor documentation fixes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.11.1 (Dec 6, 2016)
- Fixed new DMG building tools not properly bundled
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.11.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Added support for building signed DMG files
- Fixed allignment issues in for non-Qt based installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.10.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Fixed potential DLL hijacking vulnerability on Windows
- Fixed issue when centering a non-progress dialog windows in Win32, XWindow and OSX modes
- Fixed when used inside a in Qt mode
- Improved log file localisation on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.9.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Improved UI responsiveness when running long action lists
- Prevent installer cancellation while uninstaller creation
- Fixed pop-ups centering when running in multi-monitor setups
- Fixed action not properly interpreting the attribute
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.8.0 (Sep 7, 2016)
- Added support for using PKCS12 files with the osxsigner tool
- Fixed action affecting versions without build specifier in certain cases
- Fixed temporary file left behind when cancelling the installation while unpacking
- Fixed action hanging in some corner cases in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.7.0 (Aug 3, 2016)
- Improved action to recognize .NET framework 4.6
- Fixed project property not working properly
- Fixed Java autodetection functionality to allow versions with 3 digits
- Fixed Windows nested signing not working properly in certain environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.6.0 (Jul 5, 2016)
- Improved Windows signing methods to allow nesting multiple signatures
- Improved final page check boxes by making their labels clickable
- Improved error reporting when failing to pack non readable files
- Fixed build error on Windows if any of the version components includes a leading 0 followed by another digit
- Fixed some strings not being localized in the Autoupdate
- Fixed folder ownership issue in certain scenarios
- Fixed dialogs not being shown in unattended graphical mode when using 32bit installer on 64 Linux systems
- Fixed Java launchers failing to print to console in certain Windows environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.4.0 (Apr 26, 2016)
- New AutoUpdate action list autoUpdateInitializationActionList to allow executing actions at initialization time
- Fixed runProgram failing in some Windows scenarios at build time when invoked from builder-cli
- Fixed OK button not being properly localized in showChoiceQuestion dialog when running in gtk mode
- Properly set a default value for the property of the getDiskUsage action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.3.0 (Mar 31, 2016)
- New queryWMI action to allow querying WMI from InstallBuilder
- New osxApplicationBundleName and osxApplicationBundleVersion properties for Java launchers
- Improved infoParameter look and feel when used inside a parameterGroup in Qt mode
- Improved performance of uninstallation and unpacking process in upgrade mode
- Fixed icons not working properly for CLI-based Java launcher on Windows
- Fixed not properly working on some Windows environments
- Fixed builder recent files not correctly saved with paths including non-ascii symbols
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 16.1.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Improved LZMA/LZHAM ultra compression settings in CD-ROM mode
- Improved Windows icons handling to support arbitrary sizes
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly exiting after launching updates in unattended mode
- Improved action
- New project property
- Added new options 'nativeAbsolutize' and 'nativize' to action
- Make Action Groups show their in the builder GUI tree if non empty
- New project property to allow configuring the dpiAware Windows executable manifest setting
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Disabled UPX compression by default on Windows
- Updated documentation
- Fixed action not properly working on CD-ROM mode
- Fixed HTML widgets not properly handling mouse clicks on non-qt modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 15.10.1 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Added option to use a specific shell with
- Fixed internal XML tag being incorrectly serialized in action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 15.10.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Fixed HTTPS downloads sometimes not working correctly when proxy is enabled
- Fixed builder proxy preferences dialog not always properly saving its data
- Fixed ${required_diskspace} in CD-ROM mode
- Improved action to use the full detected version when ordering its results
- Fixed installers throwing an unknown error when trying to enable/disable components inside a component group from command line
- Fixed component selection page losing focus when enabling components
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 15.9.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Added support for Windows 10
- Allow and actions to configure extra HTTP headers
- Added new to allow configuring the timestamp format for the default log messages
- Added Azerbaijani, Basque, Persian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Turkmen and Vietnamese languages to InstallBuilder
- Added SNI support for HTTPS connections
- New installer_pid built-in variable
- New action to allow retrieving the current working directory
- Added setting to action
- Allow using a proxy when time stamping Windows installers signing
- Improved proxy settings handling in HTTPS connections
- Improved detection of Debian 8 and CentOS 7 platforms
- Improved detection of domain accounts
- Improved permissions handling in and action
- Improved uninstaller creation to avoid issues with antivirus software on Windows
- Silenced debug messages printed to console when calling action on Linux
- Fixed incorrect default values for and rules
- Fixed not properly accepting input in text mode after providing incorrect values
- Fixed not properly expanding vertically in Qt mode
- Fixed building of downloadable components not properly calculating the number of cores in the machine
- Fixed enabling focus to disabled child parameters
- Fixed CDROM mode failing in some environments
- Fixed conditional slide images rules not being properly recalculated after changes
- Fixed text wrapping not being properly calculated in GTK mode
- Fixed memory leak in XML manipulation actions
- Fixed not properly displayed in GTK unattended with dialogs mode
- Fixed unzip action not properly working on some scenarios when running on AIX
- Fixed platform_install_prefix not always using the 64bit program files path when enabling
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 15.1.0 (May 12, 2015)
- Allow signing Windows and OS X installers on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Support DMG with custom backgrounds creation on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Improved LZMA/LZMA-ultra compression and decompression speed
- New compression algorithms LZHAM and LZHAM-ultra
- Fixed splash screen not properly refreshed on Fedora 21
- Improve action to merge directories on destination
- Allow specifying specific products in rule
- Allow searching in the Builder tree
- Fixed Builder GUI popups not being big enough to accommodate all settings in some cases
- Fixed LZMA-Ultra compression error when building in directories with spaces
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.5 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Fixed installers failing on some RHEL/CentOS 7 environments when running in text mode
- Fixed slide images not always being properly refreshed on xwindow mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.4 (Jan 19, 2015)
- Improved parameters wrapping on gtk mode
- Added new installer_http_code built-in variable to retrieve the result of HTTP actions
- Improved performance unpacking folders with a large number of files
- Reduced time spent in files to pack calculation at build time
- Reduced TLS initialization time on Windows
- Added to action
- Added RHEL 7 platform detection
- Improved action to allow overwriting directories on destination
- Allow configuring the for which will add the startup item
- Allow configuring look and feel behaviour of unselected options in parameters
- Improved component selection page to properly scale with wide installers
- Fixed issues loading some PNG images on CentOS 7
- Fixed gtk mode failing to start on RHEL/CentOS 7
- Fixed encoding errors in environment-manipulation actions
- Fixed Qt installers not being properly set on top of other windows when launched on some OS X environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.3 (Nov 10, 2014)
- Fixed installer window not being properly centered on Windows when running in Qt mode and using large left side images
- Improved "Abort, Retry, Ignore" dialog to properly translate its buttons
- Removed extra debug messages printed on Windows
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.2 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Added TLS v1.1 and v1.2 support
- Improved performance of GUI mode when unpacking large amount of small files
- Added Major and Minor version to Windows ARP Menu information
- Fixed dialog failing on some environments
- Improved CPU detection
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.1 (Oct 17, 2014)
- Enabled TLSv1 support in HTTPS actions
- Improved builder tool look and feel on Windows when using HiDPI configurations
- New action
- Improved multiline-text wrapping on 'win32' and 'osx' modes
- Improved to fallback to 'user' scope on Windows in case of error
- Improved setting to support variables
- Fixed OS X installer generation failing on some environments because of permission denied errors
- Fixed 'installer_command_line_arguments' built-in variable not properly calculated on some Windows environments
- Fixed 'osxsigner' tool not properly signing installers with enabled
- Fixed RPM installers not properly cleaned up after uninstallation
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.5.0 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Allow generating installers larger than 2GB on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Make XML Editor popups ask for confirmation when closed with unsaved changes
- Allow configuring the LZMA-Ultra compressor block size through the setting
- New rule to allow checking for resource limits on Unix systems
- Fixed ampersand not properly shown in the final page using Qt mode on Windows
- Allow Java launchers to be built at build time
- Improved how the "Fonts" directory location is calculated on Windows
- Added and to action
- Improved to also detect "Stop Pending" status as running.
- Added to allow providing a fallback temporary directory
- Dropped OS X 10.2 support
- Fixed XML Editor popup not providing details in its error when providing incorrect code
- Fixed not properly wrapping its text in GTK mode
- Fixed "Add Shortcut" Builder dialog throwing an error when closing the popup
- Fixed LZMA-Ultra compression not properly detecting duplicated files when packing in some environments
- Fixed InstallBuilder installer and AutoUpdate not including PPC runtimes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.0.2 (Jun 26, 2014)
- Improved Gtk mode to properly run in systems without the recently deprecated Pangox library
- Improved Java detection on Unix
- Improved German translation
- Fixed CDROM build mode not properly working when using the the GUI builder
- Allow customizing CFBundleIdentifier OS X setting in the AutoUpdate and Java launchers
- Fixed error when displaying some combinations of multiline text labels in qt mode
- Fixed error when providing incorrect values for the project setting
- Fixed language selection dialog not being focused on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed Java Launcher creation failing in some environments when using downloadable components
- Fixed AutoUpdate build when disabling osx-ppc runtime inclusion
- Fixed Builder Preferences menu failing because of denied permissions in some Windows environments
- Fixed RPM installation hanging on Alt linux
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.0.1 (May 15, 2014)
- Fixed Windows single-platform licenses not being properly validated by the Builder
- Fixed Builder "Recent Projects" menu entry not listing results on Windows
- Fixed and not properly working on osx mode
- Fixed tag of actions not properly handling the "codepage" type
- Properly handle 301/302 redirects for URLs containing ports in and actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 9.0.0 (May 9, 2014)
- Added new compression algorithm LZMA-ultra to allow higher compression ration and faster decompression
- Added official support for OS X 10.9 and improved Windows 8 support
- Added support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- Improved support for Ubuntu 14.04
- Added floating licenses support
- Added Retina Display support on OS X in qt mode
- New feature to allow creating user defined rules
- Added support for HTML licenses in all flavors for Windows, Linux and OS X
- Added support for HTML licenses in all platforms
- Reduced memory consumed when unpacking files
- Reduced memory consumed by downloadable components
- Reduced memory consumed by update installers
- Reduced installation time in GUI mode, specially on Windows
- Reduced uninstaller startup time on Windows
- Fixed signing issues on 10.9 when enabling
- New ${installbuilder_output_directory} and ${installbuilder_output_filename} built-in variables to allow retrieving the output directory and output installer filename at build time
- New and actions
- New tag to allow compressing generated OS X installers as ZIP files
- New action
- New action to allow retrieving the total disk space
- New action to retrieve the name and PID of the application using a given port
- Added support for IPv6 in rule
- New ${machine_swap_memory} built-in variable to allow retrieving the amount of swap memory in the system
- Improved license pages look and feel on OS X
- Improved Java launchers creation to avoid making the installer unresponsive while serializing them
- Improved action to recognize OpenJDK versions on FreeBSD and JRE 7 on OS X
- Allow language files to support UCN escape sequences
- Added Thai and Latvian languages
- Improved Chinese, Czech, Norwegian, Danish and Japanese translations
- Allow running installers with the debugger enabled directly from the builder
- Improved win32 mode to make the installers automatically adapt to different DPI settings
- Improved rule to support 'linux-x86' as a valid platform
- Improved action to support backreferences
- Improved parameter to allow grouping pages
- Allow editing custom action instances in the builder GUI
- Allow action to also remove links
- Allow folders to configure whether to have its files added to the uninstaller or not
- Allow downloadable components feature to reuse already downloaded files
- Improved action to recognize .NET framework 4.5
- Improved to ignore malformed lines
- Allow Java launchers to read and override its values from a .properties file
- Allow disabling pinning shortcuts to Start elements on Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Added linux-s390x as an independent build platform
- Make the builder warn the user and ask for confirmation if unsaved changes are not properly applied when closing a project
- Allow "Select All" keyboard bindings in all text widgets
- Improved mode to perform a full uninstallation when no more visible components remain installed
- Make start menu shortcut creation fall back to use the user's directory when it has no permissions to write in the global scope
- Make installer serialize the ARP Menu registry keys under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER root key when the scope is set to user
- Deprecated Windows 2000 and ME platforms
- Set uninstaller.dat file permissions on Unix so only the owner can modify it
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed default value so only osx-intel support is included by default
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Added ".git" and ".hg" to tag
- Fixed not properly preserving the source file encoding
- Fixed Java launchers not being properly cleaned up at uninstallation on OS X
- Fixed file permissions issues when adding environment variables when running as root on OS X
- Fixed xwindow mode and builder crashing on Ubuntu 14.04 32bit
- Fixed and actions not properly preserving file encodings
- Fixed language selection dialog not alphabetically ordering its languages
- Fixed enter key binding on some OS X environments
- Fixed upgrade mode failing in some environments when upgrading installations built by old InstallBuilder versions
- Fixed builder creating corrupted binaries in some environments when enabling encryption
- Fixed downloadable components not being properly cleaned up if the uninstaller creation is disabled
- Fixed wrapping issues in qt mode
- Fixed not allowing ampersand (&) characters in its options text
- Fixed setting not being taken into account when uninstalling individual components
- Fixed rule failing in some Windows environments
- Fixed setting not being honoured when writing registry keys
- Fixed setting not being applied to pages
- Fixed ${installer_interactivity} built-in variable not being defined at uninstallation time
- Fixed slow redraw of pages when enabling fixed fonts
- Fixed error trying to load projects with strange characters in its filename
- Fixed long component selection pages being cut off on Windows and OS X
- Fixed some window grabbing issues in some environments when using the builder
- Fixed win32, osx and xwindow modes not being properly centered when using large window heights
- Fixed XML comments format not properly preserved by the builder
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.6.0 (Jun 30, 2013)
- Improved text wrapping on Gtk mode
- Improved to also work at uninstallation time
- Added Serbian and Lithuanian languages
- Improved required_diskspace variable to also work at build time
- Reduced delay when calculating the files to unpack
- Improved to support spaces in the path
- Improved rule
- Improved download progress meter reporting
- Improved Chinese language autodetection
- Allow Java launchers to be executed in the background
- Added new setting
- Allow configuring JRE/JDK selection order for Java launchers
- Made builder ignore missing images if they do not belong to the platform being built
- Made action ignore directories
- Improved builder error reporting when packing distribution files with empty
- Improved InstallBuilder XML errors reporting
- Improved detection of HTTP idle connections
- Allow configuring whether or not component groups should appear expanded
- Allow reusing already downloaded components if their checksum matches
- Fixed errors when downloading components bigger than 2GB in some environments
- Fixed component groups not properly displaying Unicode characters in Qt mode
- Fixed RPM and DEB packages failing to install in some environments
- Fixed GUI glitch in file and directory parameters in Windows 2008 SP2 x64 when enabling 64bit mode
- Fixed incorrect progress message when enabling at uninstallation time
- Fixed rule default logic
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.5.2 (Feb 7, 2013)
- Fixed language selection dialog location for multiple monitors on Windows
- Fixed archives created with action creating directory records showing as files in Windows Explorer
- Added detection of missing distribution file/directory in CD-ROM mode
- Fixed support for HTTP chunked encoding transfers in InstallBuilder
- Added handling of HTTP error codes for autoupdate
- Improved unpacking and removal of read-only files or directories
- Improved handling of archives with incorrect file/directory mode for action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.5.1 (Oct 24, 2012)
- Updated documentation
- Improved Windows 8 and Windows 2012 compatibility
- Improved handling of errors in Windows services actions
- Improved and actions to support Windows domains
- Make AutoUpdate iterate over the list of mirrors in case of error when running in unattended mode
- Improved look and feel
- Improved action
- Fixed uninstallation not being aborted when closing the uninstaller window in some scenarios
- Fixed page wrapping on Gtk mode
- Fixed choice selection widget crashing in some Windows environments
- Fixed uninstaller creation failing in some Windows scenarios when calling the installer using a relative symbolic links
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.5.0 (Aug 7, 2012)
- Improved performance when building downloadable components
- Reduced uninstaller creation time on Solaris
- Fixed dialog failing in some environments
- Updated documentation
- Fixed required_diskspace built-in variable not properly calculated when enabling
- Fixed Qt Installers are not properly centered on Windows
- Prevent the uninstaller from aborting when trying to close the window
- Fixed and explanation text wrapping
- Fixed component description label not properly wrapping on some environments
- Fixed --onlyprojectfiles command line flag not working when using downloadable components
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.3.0 (Jul 16, 2012)
- Disabled the debugger in platforms other than Windows, Linux and OS X
- Improved Java launchers to support generating console applications
- Improved xwindow mode to support the setting
- Added French translation to the AutoUpdate tool
- Added text mode support when using minimalWithDialogs UI mode
- Improved platform_name built-in variable to allow identifying CDROM builds programmatically
- Updated documentation
- New installer_error_code and installer_error_code_original built-in variables
- Fixed rule not properly working in some scenarios
- Fixed some files being packed twice on Windows
- Fixed not properly working in some Windows scenarios
- Fixed uninstaller not properly finding its data file in some scenarios
- Fixed not triggering the in case of error
- Properly set the installation log permissions when configuring the and settings
- Fixed action not properly configuring its scope
- Fixed components not allowing programmatic selection at some points of the installation when enabling
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.2.0 (Apr 28, 2012)
- New feature: Password protected encryption of installer payload
- Added support for ksh shell in environment variable actions
- Improved action to allow configuring the bitness (32bit/64bit) of the target Java runtime
- Improved action to support wildcards
- Improved ini file actions to support both hashes and semicolons as comment characters
- Fixed 32 bit installers crashing in Linux Mint x64 when running in gtk mode
- Fixed system language not being properly detected in some Unix environments
- Fixed unattendedmodeui setting not properly displaying its default value in the help menu
- Fixed failing at uninstallation time in some environments
- Fixed required parameters being mandatory even if its parent parameter is not selected
- Fixed nested uninstaller calls not properly working on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.1.0 (Mar 8, 2012)
- Updated documentation
- Reduced memory consumed by big installers
- Improved Builder GUI drag and drop when using non-default DPI settings
- Improved startup time in qt mode when using a big number of directory parameters
- Fix crash when failing to delete locked DLLs
- Fixed installers failing when displaying some component groups configurations
- Fixed Windows shortcuts cache not being properly refreshed on uninstallation
- Fixed downloadable components not properly verifying the download checksum in some environments
- Fixed action not properly working when invoked inside loop actions
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly normalizing the update download location
- Fixed failing in some Windows 64bits environments when is enabled
- Fixed some actions not properly executed in the
- Fixed installer not being deleted in some environments when is enabled
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.0.2 (Jan 25, 2012)
- Improved example projects and made them easily accessible through the builder GUI
- Added HTTPS support for and actions as well as for the autoupdater
- Improved downloadable components to allow resuming failed downloads
- Added new tag to action
- Improved error handling when none of the configured allowed display modes can be initialized
- Improved built-in pages to display runtime changes of the property
- Fixed HTTP-related actions failing in some Windows 64bit environments
- Fixed rule not properly checking child components
- Fixed Qt mode not properly displaying right-to-left languages
- Fixed Gtk custom style not properly wrapping some parameter pages text
- Fixed action failing in some Windows environments when passing arguments containing % characters
- Fixed installer failing when launched in some partially broken HP-UX environments
- Fixed incorrect encoding in Italian language
- Fixed crashing when providing multiple options with the same text
- Fixed InstallBuilder's User Guide link in start menu on Windows
- Fixed Gtk progress bar writing warnings to console in some environments
- Fixed not being properly vertically aligned
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.0.1 (Dec 1, 2011)
- Added new installer_command_line_arguments built-in variable
- Added new regular expressions section to the documentation
- Allow to be used in the
- Prevent from failing because of warnings when adding the services
- Improved slide show images alignment on Windows in qt mode
- Fixed debugger failing in some environments when editing the executed action list
- Fixed debugger crashing when right clicking in the Variables Editor root node
- Fixed builder crashing when editing actions and enabling advanced syntax mode
- Fixed builder crashing when building projects on some solaris-intel environments
- Fixed Gtk mode crashing in directory selection in some partially broken environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 8.0.0 (Nov 12, 2011)
- Implemented built-in debugger
- Improved component system to allow tree component selection
- Improved component system to allow downloading components from a remote server at runtime
- Improved component system to allow adding and removing components from an installation
- New to allow enabling/disabling a set of child parameters dynamically
- New to allow exclusively enabling a parameter from a set of childs dynamically
- Updated documentation
- Improved quickbuild performance in GUI mode
- Added new dotnet_framework_type built-in variable
- Improved all languages translations
- Improved AutoUpdate to support redirects
- Fixed slide show alignment on qt mode
- Improved GUI to allow hiding advanced settings
- Prevent components configured with canBeEdited=0 from being configured from the command line
- Make evaluation version message more clear on qt and gtk modes
- Improved linux_distribution_version autodetection on CentOS
- Fixed dialog not being properly centered on OS X,
- Fixed Java launchers throwing an unknown error message when the launched application returned with a non-zero exit code
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.6 (Oct 26, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Fixed qt mode text widget not properly wrapping its content on Windows
- Added support for tcsh shell in environment variable actions
- Fixed rule not properly recognizing osx-intel type on some 64bit environments
- Improved Italian translation
- Improved .password suffix to support nested variables
- Speed up uninstaller creation on Windows
- Now aborting the installation when canceling the language selection also triggers the
- Improved AutoUpdate to support the feature
- Fixed builder crashing in some Windows environments when browsing for image files
- Fixed action not properly handling parameters
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.5 (Sep 7, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Improved Dutch language support
- Fixed language files not being properly loaded when including a BOM
- Improved action to properly deal with SELinux
- Fixed packed folders not being deleted when using multiple hierarchy tags.
- Improved Installer.RebootRequired string to allow variables
- Fixed custom uninstaller directory not being deleted in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.4 (Aug 10, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
- Added contextual menu to GUI entry widgets to allow restoring the original value being edited
- Fixed installers not deleting the current file being unpacked when canceling the installation in some environments
- Improved properties editor dialog to validate user input
- Fixed and actions failing in some Windows environments because of the download file being locked
- Improved registry actions to work with and actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.3 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Improved Italian, Czech and Russian language support
- Added support for HTTP redirects in and actions
- New --verbose command line flag added to command line builder
- Added new tag to file manipulation actions to allow configuring the EOL handling
- New rule
- Improved performance of action
- Improved AutoUpdate to allow configuring its output directory and filename
- Improved built-in pages language strings to support variables modified at any point at runtime
- Improved widget alignment in nested parameter groups in qt mode
- Fixed action failing in some environments
- Dropped Windows 98 support
- Added examples for all actions to the documentation
- Improved deb generation to allow providing custom conffiles files
- Improved action to properly work on OS X 10.7
- Fixed action failing in some environments
- Fixed installers failing on OS X with some thirdparty system fonts configuration
- Improved the file packing filters to support semicolon separated patterns
- Improved command line builder to support displaying text mode popups when building
- Improved GUI builder to accept the information provided through the --setvars flag
- Added new built-in variable installbuilder_ui
- Allow Arabic language to be selectable through the GUI builder
- Allow providing short version of registry root keys to registry actions
- Allow launching scrips from directories containing "&" characters
- Improved final page text wrapping
- Fixed some environment variable actions now properly working in some Windows environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.2 (Jun 21, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- New Search dialog for GUI Builder XML editor
- Disabled "Save" and "Save As" menu entries in GUI Builder when no project is loaded
- Fixed action not properly registering variables in some scenarios.
- Skipped mirror selection page in AutoUpdate tool when just one option is available
- New action to create absolute paths
- Fixed not saving the password when accepting the dialog by pressing enter
- Improved rule to also include default Windows firewall
- Improved Russian language support
- New project setting to allow disabling the creation of the Add Remove Programs entry on windows
- Improved action to support latest Windows versions
- Added Support for shiftjis encoding on HP-UX in text mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.1 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Improved Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Updated documentation
- Speed up installer startup time when being launched from a network drive
- New and actions
- Improved administrator user check in HP-UX platform
- Improved and action settings to support variables
- Improved minimalWithDialogs mode look and feel
- Fixed text not being correctly wrapped in some in win32 modes
- Fixed entries misaligned in some languages
- Fixed GUI "Files" tree not being updated when manually deleting elements from the XML editor
- Fixed action not properly handling case insensitivity
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.2.0 (May 20, 2011)
- Improved packing filters to allow excluding files to pack at any depth of the directory hierarchy
- Added Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Allow disabling Xft fonts support in xwindow mode to reduce installers size
- Improved language autodetection on Windows
- Updated documentation
- Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
- Added new variable installation_aborted_by_user
- Removed --enable-components, --disable-components and --optionfile options from uninstaller help menu
- Improved refresh rate to allow properly displaying quick actions progress text
- Fixed default installation language not being properly resolved in uninstaller help menu
- Fixed error in GUI builder when using file dialogs in some scenarios
- Fixed scope issue in custom actions
- Replaced missing occurrences of "Ok" text in buttons to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed setting failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.1.1 (May 6, 2011)
- Fixed action failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.1.0 (Apr 29, 2011)
- Fixed installer startup failing in some scenarios when being launched from a symbolic link
- Fixed rule failing in some environments
- Fixed installation log containing unnecessary empty new lines when using disabling the file unpacking process
- Fixed comboboxes not being properly displayed in Windows Vista and 7 in win32 mode
- Improved look and feel of the Builder and installers in OS X and Windows
- Improved to properly handle invalid SID provided as username
- New project property to configure the style of the language selection dialog
- Improved reported errors when loading invalid XML files
- Updated documentation
- Fixed uninstaller not being removed on HP-UX
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.5 (Apr 19, 2011)
- New split HTML version of the documentation
- Significantly improved action performance
- Improved installers to allow variables in most of the project tags
- Improved GUI to accept variables in choice and boolean-like properties
- New property added configure how and should validate bundles in OS X
- Allow to receive keyboard focus on Qt mode
- Improved OS X bundle launcher script to support projects with UTF-8 characters in their full name
- Improved Polish translation
- Fixed not properly working
- Removed outdated syntax from demo projects
- Updated command line builder icon on Windows
- Fixed action not properly handling project references
- Show more verbose errors in and actions when invoked outside loop
- Fixed XML comments not being preserved in the GUI editor in some scenarios
- Fixed installers failing on HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD 4 in some system language configurations
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.4 (Apr 2, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Added to the action to allow specifying the order of the detected Java versions
- Added rule
- Added action
- Improved Italian, French, Norwegian, Korean and Spanish translations
- Included English language file in the installers as a reference
- Improved build performance in Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX
- Fixed action failing when providing an empty
- Fixed main progress bar not properly configured in some scenarios
- Fixed rule throwing an error when providing a malformed port
- Changed "Ok" buttons text to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed registered estimated size on Windows 7 not being properly calculated
- Fixed RPM database registration not honoring files removed from uninstaller
- Fixed rollback functionality not properly handling the original drive
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.3 (Mar 8, 2011)
- Added Czech language support
- Added Norwegian language support
- Updated documentation
- New action to allow custom actions to modify project level variables
- Provided a default value for installer-language command line flag in the help menu
- Improved action to accept variables in the tag
- Improved and action properties to accept variables
- Added support for Bourne shell (sh) in actions related to environment variables
- Fixed installer refreshing issue when quickly pushing 'next' button multiple times on Windows
- Fixed installer not properly loading images in some environments
- Properly handle standard streams redirection on Windows Java launchers
- Improved regular installer registration with RPM database
- Fixed GUI XML editor not properly preserving comments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.2 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Allow the tag of the action to contain variables
- Provide more verbose error when the builder does not have permissions to write in the output directory
- Improved look and feel of the "custom"
- Improved wrapping of text when using radiobuttons style in gtk mode
- Added new built-in variable machine_cpu_count
- Improved action performance
- Added tag to the Autoupdate tool to allow configuring its execution level
- Improved quickbuild in GUI mode to pack differences in packed files in addition to project changes
- Added machine_cpu_speed and machine_total_memory built-in variables to OS X platform
- Fixed popup XML editor failing in some scenarios
- Fixed gtk buttons not being properly localized after the language selection when using
- Fixed setting failing with the new compression system
- Fixed builder crashing on some OS X environments when using Asian languages
- Fixed command line quickbuild not properly working in some environments with the new compression system
- Fixed reporting incorrect data in some OS X environments
- Fixed not properly working when used in the action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.1 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Fixed XML Editor failing to load some projects
- Improved XML editor performance when editing big XML projects
- Remove incorrect validation in and elements
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 7.0.0 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Ability to create custom actions to reuse code snippets
- New action to create Java launchers
- New in depth documentation
- Allow downloading ready to use JREs from the GUI builder
- Added built-in variables inspector to the builder
- Added search functionality to builder actions dialog
- New built-in XML editor in the GUI builder
- Improved to work on Windows domains
- Improved continuous progress popup layout
- Fixed action not properly working on some Windows 64bit environments
- Display component selection default description in Qt and Gtk modes
- Localize OS X translucent menu bar
- Fixed Korean and Chinese languages not being properly autodetected on some Windows environments
- Fixed ${machine_ipaddr} not being properly resolved in some Windows 64bit environments
- Asynchronously check for updates in the builder
- Making permissions errors when building more verbose
- Moved language selection dialog after the
- Make sure the log contains all the information after an error
- Improved packing method to improve packing and unpacking speed and reduce installers size and memory consume
- Fixed multidisk cdrom installers not retrying asking the first disk after a failed try
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed Unix installer extension from .bin to .run to make installers recognized as executable in some environments such as latest versions of Ubuntu
- Fixed destination field validation
- Fixed failing on OS X if the disk volume tested contains spaces
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.6 (Oct 28, 2010)
- Improve administrator user check in Solaris platform
- Added Xft font support in Solaris
- Added rule
- Fixed dialog buttons not being localized in qt mode
- is now accessible through the GUI
- Allow created OS X environment variables to be accessible from GUI applications
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not properly launching the downloaded installers in some OS X scenarios
- Fixed key bindings not properly working on xwindow, osx and win32 modes when selecting some languages
- java_autodetected and dotnet_autodetected are now set to 0 if the detection fails
- Fixed UI becoming not responsive when using to unpack big directories
- Fixed not properly representing its value in some UI modes when using variables
- Support zh_HK as valid language code
- Fixed errors when trying to overwrite hidden files on Windows
- Now in_empty and is_not_empty rules conditions in rule now take into account hidden files
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.5 (Oct 5, 2010)
- New action
- New options is_type and is_not_type to registryTest rule
- Implemented new project property to configure the icon on OS X
- Added Java Web Start binary to the list of autodetected targets in action
- Upgrade Autoupdate tool to support high color depth icons
- Allow viewing XML code of elements from the GUI
- Fixed description in the GUI
- Fixed popups sometimes not working when being resized in Solaris
- Modified position of "Created with an evaluation version" text in unregistered installers
- Fixed Chinese and Brazillian language autodetection on Unix
- Fixed wrapping in welcome and installation finished pages in Qt installers on Windows and OS X
- Fixed integer validation in action
- Fixed GUI context menu on OS X
- Improved page wrapping in Gtk custom style
- Properly deal with incorrect paths when creating the rollback directory
- Fixed Suse version autodetection failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.4 (Sep 20, 2010)
- Implemented drag and drop of nodes in the GUI builder
- Make folders' accessible through the GUI
- Added OS X service manipulation actions , , and
- Added rule to check OS X services state
- Fixed XML load errors displaying an incorrect line number in some unicode files
- Implemented new action
- Improved language autodetection in OS X
- Added tag in to specify the display order of the elements
- Added is_windows_admin_account, is_windows_user_account, is_windows_guest_account to rule
- Properly wrap descriptions when used inside a on xwindow, win32 and osx modes
- Allow distribution files and directories to be configured through the GUI
- Improved error when loading an incorrect project to display line number and file
- Wrap all text mode pages
- Allow resolving environment variables with parentheses
- Make action recursive
- Fixed InstallBuilder RELAX NG schema
- Improved keyboard navigation on xwindow mode
- Fixed incorrect font used in Chinese and Korean languages on Windows
- Fixed failing on OS X
- Make sure all actions defining variables resolve variables in the variable name
- Fixed deb/rpm helper binaries permissions
- Fixed action requiring write permissions over the target .ini file
- Properly handled errors retrieving available disk space
- Clean unnecessary helper binaries when upgrading Debian packages
- Added monthly date type in action
- Make Autoupdate tool to also look for the license in user directory on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.3 (Aug 25, 2010)
- Added Korean language support
- Now any icon resolution is accepted for Windows installers
- Fixed OS X installers failing when requiring Admininstrator privileges and containing invalid characters in its
- Make keyboard focus visible on xwindow mode
- Fixed uninstaller not being properly created in some scenarios when launched with a symbolic link
- Added support for symbolic links in unzip action
- Allow component names to contain underscores
- Fix integers validation failing dealing with large integers
- Allow tag in action to contain variables
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.2 (Aug 16, 2010)
- Properly localize --help menu
- Fixed GUI Builder failing when adding actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.1 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Updated Brazilian Portugese language
- Fixed dialogs not being correctly centered on Windows in qt mode
- Fixed --version and --help Windows popups not being displayed
- Fixed minimal unattended ui mode not being correctly detected on Solaris
- Fixed Japanese and Chinese languages not being correctly displayed in xwindow mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.5.0 (Aug 6, 2010)
- New action
- New mechanism to escape variable references
- Allow configuring Autoupdate tool proxy through the configuration file
- New and rules
- Added --help menu to the builder
- Added --license command line flag to the builder to provide an alternative license file
- Added --debugtrace command line flag to the builder
- Added --project command line flag to specify a project to load in the GUI builder
- Improved unattendedModeUI mode to support gtk and qt mode
- Added tag to action
- New windows-x86 platform type check added to rule
- Fixed refresh issue that affected download rate in Autoupdate Tool, specially on OS X
- New tag added to shortcuts to mark Windows shortcuts to run as Administrator
- Improved validation of boolean and integer type settings
- Added OS detection support for RHEL 6
- Use default Unix permissions in action running on Unix when unpacking files created on Windows
- Added tag to action and to to display HTML text in Qt mode
- Fixed "Test Run" button on GUI builder not correctly launching generated Windows installers in UAC environments
- Added tag to , and actions
- Added tag to elements
- New windows_os_uac_enabled built-in variable to check the state of the UAC on Windows
- New warnings to report command line flags that are provided multiple times
- Properly deal with multiple installation mode command line flags
- Fixed action failing in some scenarios when packing directories
- Enforce executable permissions in Unix shortcuts
- Added file and line number to duplicated tags warnings
- Fixed tcsh not being recognized as a valid shell by environment actions on Unix
- Added tag to disable the built-in confirmation popup on uninstallation
- Fixed uninstaller not being deleted on unattended mode on Windows in some scenarios
- Fixed title not being configurable in some UI modes
- Include state in rule description in GUI builder
- Added double click binding in "Files" section in the GUI builder
- Fixed / and actions being affected by the state of the Wow64 filesystem redirection
- Fixed crash on GUI builder when the tag of folder contains incorrect values
- Clean /opt/bitrock directory after deb/rpm uninstallation
- Fixed installer failing on Windows when TEMP environment variable containing multiple directories
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.4.0 (Jun 12, 2010)
- Added support for nested variables
- Now all variable references are case insensitive
- New action
- Prevent GUI builder from accepting incorrect values in its dialogs
- Added new and actions
- New action
- New action
- Added new action
- Added matchHiddenFiles flag to , and actions
- Added OS X support for user and group manipulation actions
- Added new built-in variable windows_os_flavor
- Allow and actions to be accessed through the GUI
- Fixed Qt installer abnormaly resizing in "custom" mode
- Fixed patterns in folders' inclusion filters not resolved when using backslashes
- Allow to display a download progress bar when containing a single child action
- Normalize all relative paths to reference project directory in Autoupdate tool
- New validation of duplicated project tags
- Disabled RPM registration in platforms with non-native RPM support
- Increase size of builder project properties dialog
- Allow empty user and password to be provided in action
- New tag in action
- Disable language selection dialog when a value is provided through command line
- Allow InstallBuilder license to be saved to and loaded from user personal directory on Windows
- Added Japanese string for Installer.DirectorySelection built-in string
- Fixed glitch in button states after installation page
- Allow task name with spaces in action
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.3.1 (May 5, 2010)
- New action
- New action
- New action
- Added tag to action
- Improved to autodetect system proxy settings
- Improved RPM integration
- Improved Qt look and feel on Windows and OS X
- Validate user provided input for parmeters while creating them.
- Added Windows support for user and group manipulation actions
- Fixed failing to delete keys on Windows 64bit
- Documented windows_os_service_pack
- Prevent fileTest rule from failing when testing a non-existent link
- Fixed autoupdate returning update available when check_for_updates was set to '0'
- Fixed Windows 7 not being recognized when Windows 7 Logo Toolkit is installed
- Fixed symbolic links not being properly packed when included as
- Fixed variables not being resolved in some Autoupdate project tags.
- Fixed error parsing Autoupdate projects containing utf-8 BOM
- Built-in registry keys are now created in the 64bit view when is enabled
- Fixed Windows 2008 autodetection failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.3.0 (Feb 24, 2010)
- Now Windows installers set the default installation language from a previous installation when updating
- Reduced memory consumption when unpacking large single-file installers
- Multiple improvements in CDROM installers
- Allow HTML licenses file in Qt mode
- New installer_builder_version and installer_builder_timestamp built-in variables
- License parameters now accept multiple localized licenses
- New action to configure proxy to use with http actions
- New and actions
- New and Windows actions
- New action
- New and actions
- New .password suffix to mask passwords in log messages
- Support for osx-intel and osx-pcc in platform test
- Fixed proxy configuration in autoupdate failing in some environments
- Fixed autoupdate failing on OS X when using minimalWithDialog ui mode
- Properly set default output and project directory on Windows 7
- Prevent downloaded installers to by launched in text mode by the autoupdater
- New tag to match hidden files on Windows
- Fixed property being empty during build time
- FreeBSD 8 support
- Improve RPM removal process
- Fixed failing on Windows when using
- Fixed unpacking errors in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.7 (Jan 26, 2010)
- File selection crashes if third-party Explorer extensions change locale
- Fixed unpacking error in some Windows environments due to antivirus software locking files
- New property in action to configure whether to use or not 8.3 format in the path
- Added encoding property in action and rule
- New action
- Allow file type filters in dialogs for xwindow, osx and win32 modes
- Include InstallBuilder version by default in the generated installers version info
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.6 (Jan 26, 2010)
- New dialog
- New action to retrieve ACLs on Windows
- New action
- Added project property to mark locked files on Windows to be renamed instead of prompting the end-user to abort/retry/ignore
- Fixed build-time memory errors produced by the usage of with big executables
- Allow Autoupdate strings to be localized
- Added and tags to action
- Actions that modify the environment variables and PATH can now be applied to a particular user (Unix only)
- Fixed masking the the original error
- Fixed .desktop files on Unix not correctly working on some scenarios
- Avoid locked files error when unpacking on Unix
- Use SID for user default value on action
- Added is_empty and is_not_empty tests to rule
- Fixed registry actions not correctly resolving variables in their errors
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not modifying Windows executable resources
- Fixed some minor bugs in Autoupdate tool
- Improved windows-x64 rule
- Allow uninstaller icon to be customized
- Fixed not being deleted after a successful rollback
- Fixed validation failing in some environments
- Fixed software version registry key not being updated after an upgrade
- Give executable permissions to serialized .desktop files on Unix
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.5 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Allow file filtering in folders
- Fix glitch in action popup on OS X builder
- New action to modify Windows permissions
- New action
- New project property
- Fixed "Administrator privileges required" string not shown in all languages
- Fixed action always following symbolic links
- Improved text entry field in GUI builder
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.4 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Improved builder tool on OS X x86
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.3 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Improved builder tool on OS X x86
- Added new windows_os_service_pack built-in variable
- Allow action to also insert text at the beginning
- Allow autoupdate to run and install installers in unattended mode
- New action.
- Fixed action not accepting paths as arguments on Windows 64bits
- Fixed action not correctly detecting 64bit Java installations on Windows
- Fix OS X installers Info.plist not correctly created when non-ASCII characters were used in the installer name
- Open file button fails on OS X if initial directory does not exist.
- addLibraryToPath action does not resolve variables in its path tag
- addLibraryToPath not working correctly on Linux x64 and OS X
- platformTest can now distinguish between hpux-ia64 and hpux-parisc
- addDirectoryToPath not working correctly on OS X
- launchBrowser action fails in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.2 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Fixed and Readme file not correctly resized on Windows
- New rule
- Added additional information to autoupdate guide
- Expanded entry fields on builder GUI
- Fixed Unix services related actions not working correctly on some distributions
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.1 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Fixed OSX version of the autoupdate not properly launching the downloaded installer
- Fixed installation step of installers launched by the autoupdate being skipped in some environments
- Added windows64bitMode project property to allow installers to behave as 64bit applications on Windows
- Added Windows 2008 R2 platform to platformTest rule
- Add SME linux to linux_distribution built-in variables
- Allow deleting nodes on OS X from the GUI
- New if/else action
- Added and properties to showText dialog action
- Allow Windows UAC level to be changed at built-time with property
- Validation of parameters' leftImage file at build time
- Component selection page resizable for Qt
- Added installer_ui_detail built-in variable to get the detailed installation mode
- Added aditional tests to componentTest rule
- Fixed platformTest type=windows-x64 not properly working in some environments
- Removed alpha channel from leftSide image to prevent some crashes on Solaris
- Fixed rules are not being evaluated for onErrorActionLists
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.2.0 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added project property and --debugLevel flag to control the verbosity level in installation log file
- Added new
- Fixed stringTest ascii and digit types
- Added windows-xp, windows-2003,windows-2008 and windows-7 to rule
- Fixed uninstaller failing because of missing DLL in some scenarios
- Fixed 's not being used in the installationLog
- Added Hebrew and Greek language support
- Fixed Linux installers unable to launch from a directory containing non-ASCII characters
- Added osx_version and osx_major_version built-in variables
- Fixed choiceParameter combobox style not correctly working when using variables in its "value" and "default" tags
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.1.3 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added "hidden" and "readonly" attributes to action
- Relative installation paths not always working in interactive mode
- Added action
- Fixed showQuestion dialogs are not working when enabled
- Display warnings on project load when incorrect choice parameters
- Fixed error loading a project with no components.
- Enabled optional timestamp in action.
- Fixed uninstaller on OSX when installing as root.
- Consider directories containing .DS_Store file as empty
- Added autoupdate support for OS X
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.1.2 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Fix autoupdate customization tool unable to launch
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.1.1 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Show the default components to install and allowed components in the help menu
- Add support for excluding files in many actions
- Fix upgrade installers on OS X not modifying uninstaller
- Fix deleteEnvironmentVariable not working correctly on Unix systems
- New negate option for all rules, allows negating any rule
- Fix builds from shared drives on Windows and VMWare mapped drives
- File readable test failed in some shared drives under Windows
- addDirectoryToPath action did not honor insertAt on Windows systems
- Fixed resizing of component selection screen in some GUI modes
- New unattended mode ui command line option
- Allow component selection page to resize horizontally
- Fix sometimes uninstaller failing when files where in use
- Support Windows x64 test in platformTest
- Fix linux-x64 not having GUI builder mode
- Fixed runAs failing when arguments contain quotes
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.1.0 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Support for IBM iSeries, OS/400 Use existing AIX target.
- Fixed crashes when current Linux distribution version could not be determined
- Resizable component selection for X-window mode
- Added Windows 2008 and Windows 7 platforms to windows_os_* built-in variables
- Fixed paths always being relativized when saving project using the GUI
- Fixed symbolic links not being correctly registered in the uninstaller log
- New dialog
- Fixed "Open Project.." in GUI not opening last used directory
- Fixed dialog in Qt
- Added a delay option to action
- Added suport for UTF-8 encoding on .desktop files
- Added new
- Added is_symlink and is_symlink conditions to fileTest rule
- property in action no supports scripts with spaces.
- in Windows registry related actions and rules now admits variables
- Now the GUI allows nested startMenuFolders
- Fixed installed shortcuts on common Desktop not being refreshed properly on Windows Vista
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.0.3 (Apr 27, 2009)
- An issue with distro detection on RHEL derivatives was fixed.
- A new action list for help display was added.
- The installer now returns an error code if an error occurs in postInstallationActionList even if the error does not stop the installer.
New in VMware InstallBuilder Professional 6.0 (Mar 13, 2009)
- Autoupdate functionality available for Windows and Linux
- Quickbuild functionality now can do incremental builds and only repackage new or changed files
- Support for right to left languages in Qt mode, in particular Arabic is now included
- Enhanced keyboard navigaton on Qt mode
- New rule for components, folders and shortcuts, allows specifying at build time whether to pack or not the given element
- New action, allows to perform basic arithmetic calculations
- New action, allows configuring the file system redirection behavior on Windows 64-bit systems
- New rule, allows checking whether a key or value exists on the Windows registry
- New property, allows customizing the application entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware
- Ability to change the version information of generated Windows installers. This is the information that appears when you position the mouse over the icon.
- Custom style installers were not showing left image with parameter groups
- Fix typo in Dutch localization
- Fix addUnixDesktopStartUpItem not working on latest Ubuntu 8.10
- Fix InstallBuilder problems as admin when running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Using runProgram with runAs option will now bring a graphical prompt on
- Linux systems with gksu or kdesu available when the installer is not
- already running with admin privileges
- External included files will now be serialized to separate files on disk when
- using the GUI
- New java_autodetected variable. Set to 0 unless autodetectJava action is successful and sets it to 1.
- Fix issue with builder CLI on Windows not working properly
- New .escape_backslashes suffix for escaping backslashes in values. Useful
- when dealing with Java properties
- New shutdown action to reboot the machine on Windows
- Fix addDirectoryToPath not working in previous version of InstallBuilder